Challenges and Risks of Privacy and Personal Information Security in Digital India

Abstract

The Digital India programme is a one of the dream programme of the Government of India with a target of transforms India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. It has been required to ensure e-Governance in the country to promote inclusive growth that covers electronic services, products, devices and job opportunities. Indian organizations have not paid adequate attention towards the area of cyber security. The widespread absence of even the most routine security tools and policies has left many Indian organizations vulnerable to serious cyber-attacks. Although spying has been an accepted all the part of digital contents, digital era is termed as the golden age for spying. Moreover, electronic manufacturing in the country needs to be strengthened. In this paper, the emerging challenges in security and privacy faced by the organizations in India are analyzed. The security mechanisms used by the organizations have been identified. The security counter measures which are needed to be taken to overcome the vulnerabilities in Digital India are identified.